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In the spirit of Guess How Much I Love You, this book explores the love that runs deep between Moana and her grandmother. In this story Moana and her grandmother take turns comparing their love for one another to all the different things they can find on their island home of Motunui.
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The Arabian Nights Andrew Lang - One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of stories collected over many centuries by various authors, translators and scholars in various countries across the Middle East and South Asia. These collections of tales trace their roots back to ancient Arabia and Yemen, ancient Indian literature and Persian literature, ancient Egyptian literature and Mesopotamian mythology, ancient Syria and Asia Minor, and medieval...
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In her debut poetry collection, Hannah Lee Jones brings readers on a mythic journey across a vast physical and metaphysical landscape. Four cardinal directions point the way through this inner wilderness, through trials and initiations, suffering and discovery, on a restless quest for deeper connection and wholeness. What emerges is a richly textured map of love and loss, a tapestry of hard-won truths both personal and universal. At turns mysterious,
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The book delves into the implication and philosophy of colors from a Hindu woman's point of view, from birth until death. The color she adorns herself with almost depicts the story of her life. Expressed through different poetic and verbal forms, each color in the book has its own tone and is specific to different age groups.
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Living Quarters uses both the structure of a domestic space and the rhythms of the seasons to seek, but not reliably find, order and consolation in life's seeming disorder. Relationships dissolve; deaths come too soon; the past vanishes; the earth that gives beautiful and nourishing foods swallows up the creatures for whom it provides. These poems struggle with that mix of affirmation and destruction, celebrating nature's generosity while trying to...
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When the speaker arrives to the United States, she struggles to fit in due to her lack of knowledge of the American culture which leads her to feeling isolated from the rest of the world. As the story progress, she takes risks such as getting rid of her traditional values in order to overcome her difference by conforming to the American teenager ideal. Read to find out her compromise!
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DUETO DE LUCIÉRNAGAS es un extraordinario libro de poesía con un sello oriental definitivo. Sus autores logran una alternancia en la expresión de temas de vida con pincel de matices atenuados con la particular sensibilidad de la milenaria cultura oriental. Y es que la pluma de Bill Wolak lo lleva por denodados senderos literarios, en Europa, Eurasia, Asia e India, caminos de maduración como autor que le permiten plasmar con absoluta originalidad...
9) Flora
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Poetry and love seem pretty out of place these days. This poetry album is a test to see if these are really rare quaint commodities that do not matter and thus, do not sell. It is also a test to see if there can be something other than what poetry is purported to be in modern times. It is to prove that modern poetry should take a lot of lessons from the music world and the art world before it is pronounced defunct.
10) El riseñor
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La reedición de El riseñor reproduce la edición original de 1975 con el mismo grabado de Blas Castagna en la tapa y agrega, a modo de apéndice, las partituras de "El riseñor" para coro a mixto a capella, obra compuesta por Julio M. Viera. En este libro, que fue censurado en los setentas, se encuentran las primeras reescrituras de Lamborghini, por ejemplo, la del Himno Nacional Argentino, la del poema de Quevedo "Amor constante más allá de la...
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Drowning Dragon Slips by Burning Plains counters the narrative held in the West about women and the land of the quaintly "lush" and "charming" Mekong Delta. A rice field in the middle of the communist and American-backed government, the delta was an essential resource that fed both sides of the war in Vietnam. The Mekong Delta went through countless massacres on an immense scale. Yet, history wiped the injuries away as if the river forgot. In her...
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Wet Silence bears moving accounts of Hindu widows in India. The book raises concern about the treatment of widowed women by society; lends their stories a voice; shares their unheard tales about marriage; reveals the heavy hand of patriarchy; and, addresses the lack of companionship and sensuality in their lives. This collection of poems covers a myriad of social evils such as misogyny, infidelity, gender inequality, and celibacy amongst other things....
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To Build A Home is a book of poetry and prose detailing the emotions that come with learning you are in an abusive relationship, and learning how to heal and love yourself again in the aftermath. It is a book that helps you discover the most beautiful love there can be is the love you give yourself.
14) Quipu
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Quipu was a tactile recording device for the pre-literate Inca, an assemblage of colored knots on cords. In his eighth collection of poetry, Arthur Sze utilizes quipu as a unifying metaphor, knotting and stringing luminous poems that move across cultures and time, from elegy to ode, to create a precarious splendor. Revelation never comes as a fern uncoiling a frond in mist; it comes when I trip on a root, slap a mosquito on my arm. We go on, but stop...
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How to Write a Suicide Note examines the life of a Chinese/Black woman who grew up passing for white, who grew up poor, who loves women but has always married white men. Writing has saved her life. It has allowed her to name the historical trauma-the racist, sexist, classist experiences that have kept her from being fully alive, that have screamed at her loudly and consistently that she was no good, and would never be any good-and that no one could...
16) Effulgent Dreams
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This is a book where I tried to turn each moment of experience in my hands, which convey my insights with elegance of language. This book of poetry goes far with emotions and sensitivity.
Effulgent Dream is a book of poems that evoke feelings of love, separation, despair and loneliness. My poems trace a path across the world, delving into other experiences with learning one's intensity.
This book will offer you the plans to give you hope, happiness...
17) Lion Tamer
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Homerow confronts chaos, questions the measure of time, and searches for other dimensions. Hunted by the unknown through moon phase and dream portal - who sent me this letter? Do they really think a lion can be tamed?
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Celebrity Sadhana, Or How to Meditate with a Hammer is a series of poems aimed to imagine meditative moments from the 'sadhana', spiritual practice, of Hollywood's elite. Building on the wisdom traditions of the East to bring the hammer down on complacent notions about what it means to be spiritual in today's world.
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How to find wisdom and spiritual sustenance in a time of crisis and uncertainty? In Divine Fire, David Woo answers with poems that move from private life into a wider world of catastrophe and renewal. The collection opens in the most personal space, a bedroom, where the chaotic intrusions of adulthood revive the bafflements of childhood. The perspective soon widens from the intimacies of love to issues of national and global import, such as race and...
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A collection of poems that cover a dazzling range of topics, 88 Poems by Cho addresses observations of everyday life, fictional stories in an historical context, imaginary worlds, and commentaries on society. While part of the collection deals with Asian or Asian-American characters, readers from all walks of life will enjoy these honest and thought-provoking glimpses at life as seen through the author's eyes.